Clues for the word "LAP"
We've had 492 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1259 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 27, 2025.
Definition of lap
- n. - The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- n. - An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- n. - The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
- n. - That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
- n. - The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
- n. - The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
- n. - One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
- n. - In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- n. - A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- n. - A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
- v. t. - To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- v. t. - To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
- n. - To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
- n. - To wrap or wind around something.
- n. - To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- n. - To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
- n. - To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
- v. i. - To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
- v. i. - To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
- v. i. - To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
- v. t. - To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- n. - The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
- n. - The sound of lapping.
Referring Clues
- Drink from a dish
- Napkin's place
- Get up and it's gone
- Drink like Fido
- Word with top or dog
- One round
- Grandchild's seat
- Full circle
- Spot for a computer
- Dog's drink, or resting spot
- What you stand to lose?
- Work surface, sometimes
- Once around the track
- You stand to lose it
- Luxurious place?
- Race unit
- Computer support, sometimes
- Computer site
- Swimmer's unit
- Napkin holder
- 1/4 mile, maybe
- Area of responsibility
- Drink like a dog
- Pool distance
- Small dog's spot
- Baby seat?
- Baby seat, say
- One can't stand having this
- Clipboard alternative
- Familiar place for a cat
- Place for many a PC
- Circuit
- Sitter's acquisition
- Sometime PC supporter
- Baby's resting spot
- Big lead in a race
- Nascar unit
- Spot for Spot?
- Complete circuit
- Child seat?
- Place for a housecat
- Once around a track
- Provider of PC support
- Australian race horse Phar ___
- Talladega unit
- You could stand to lose it
- Baby sitter?
- Toddler's perch, perhaps
- Seat of luxury
- PC perch, perhaps
- Portable computer's place, perhaps
- Track star's round trip
- 440 yards, to a track runner
- Baby's seat
- Racing circuit
- It disappears when you stand up
- You stand to lose this
- Chihuahua locale
- Napkin site
- Revolution at Le Mans
- Once around the course
- Computer or child support?
- Victory follower
- Drink like a cat
- 1/200th of the Indy 500
- Full circle, on the track
- Drink like Toto
- Swimmer's rep
- Trip around the track
- Make small waves
- Once across the pool
- Pass, on the track
- Pace car's circuit
- Get a huge lead on
- Appearance at a sit-down?
- Indy unit
- Place for a napkin
- Slurp (up)
- Sitter's offer to a tot
- Michael Phelps workout unit
- Thighs, at times
- Spot for a small dog
- Santa seat
- Word with dog or dance
- You can't stand having one
- Computer holder, perhaps
- Oval circuit
- 50 meters in a pool, maybe
- Full circle?
- Track unit
- A bell might signal the last one
- With 21-Across, Maltese, e.g.
- Dobro's place, usually
- Heat unit?
- Drink (up)
- Something you stand to lose?
- Computer site, sometimes
- Everyone at a sit-down dinner has one
- Place for a cat, maybe
- Place for 57-Down, perhaps
- Length of the pool
- Seat for a Santa visitor
- Portable computer site
- Drink like Lassie
- Child support?
- Spot for a napkin
- Full circuit
- Luxury site?
- NASCAR circuit
- Track circuit
- Sports circuit
- In the ___ of luxury
- 2.5 miles at Indy
- Area of responsibility, so to speak
- Place for a dummy
- One circuit
- Race car's circuit
- Seat for a baby
- Racecar's circuit
- Perch for a tyke
- Race segment
- ___ of luxury
- Wash against, as waves
- Relay segment
- Be more than 400 meters ahead of, perhaps
- Computer support?
- Once around the block
- Luxury locale?
- Indy measure
- Perch for those who love Santa
- You can't stand having it
- Locale for a small computer
- Disappearing body part
- Disappearing body part?
- What no one has while standing
- Little one's seat
- Place for a cat, often
- Baby's perch
- Two pool lengths
- Relay leg, perhaps
- Race division, perhaps
- Yorkie's perch
- 440 yards, to a track star
- Waist-to-knees area, at times
- Drink, in a way
- You can stand to lose it
- Something you can't stand to have
- Place for a baby to sit
- ___ of luxury
- Place of luxury?
- Place for a cat nap
- Pass again in a race
- Drink cat-style
- Santa's perch
- Once around the Brickyard
- Racetrack distance
- 440 yards, at times
- Down, with "up"?
- Swimmer's workout unit
- Seat for toddlers
- Surface for computers perhaps
- Pet perch
- What a sitter makes
- Victory ___
- In the ___ of luxury
- Surface for a computer, perhaps
- Swimming unit
- Luxurious setting?
- Track trip
- One of 200 in the Indy 500
- You make one by sitting down
- Late-night dance locale?
- Once around
- Track distance
- Lick
- What cats do ... or sit on
- Down and back, in a pool
- With 33 Across, small pets
- Place of luxury
- 440 yards, often
- One can stand to lose it
- Spot for a tot
- Come full circle?
- Comfy spot for some cats
- You can't stand to have it
- Once around a racetrack
- Splash softly
- A cozy seat
- Napkin spot
- Pool unit
- Trip around a track
- Napkin setting
- Stander's loss
- Baby's seat, maybe
- 23-Across' place, often
- Pomeranian's perch, perhaps
- Pomeranian's perch
- Toddler's perch
- You can't stand to have one
- You can't stand having this
- Track trip
- Pool length
- Race circuit
- Indy 500 unit
- Indy 500 circuit
- Racing unit
- Lick like a dog
- Indy circuit
- Accept eagerly, with "up"
- Peke's perch
- Sitting feature
- Across the pool and back
- A place of luxury?
- One time around
- Overtake on the track, in a way
- You'd better sit down for this
- Cat seat, maybe
- Runner's circuit
- Once around the oval
- Sphere of responsibility
- Paul Tracy revolution?
- Common place for something to drop
- What a standee lacks
- Sitter's creation
- Luxury locale, so to speak
- Slurp (with "up")
- What cats and waves do
- Racers's circuit
- Once around the pool
- Spot for some cats
- Kiddie seat?
- Child's perch
- Sitter's gain
- Pool circuit
- Sitting formation
- Drink with the tongue
- Once around the park, say
- Computer perch, perhaps
- Word before dog or dance
- Act like a thirsty cat
- Cat's resting place, maybe
- It's made while sitting
- Spot for a cat, or drink like a cat
- Drink like a 46-Down
- 400 meters to an Olympic runner, usually
- Place for a computer
- 440 yards, on a track
- Swimming pool distance
- Drink like 5-Down
- Drink from the dish
- Manmade seat?
- User's circuit
- Swimming distance
- Sitter's seat
- Race part
- Running measure
- What you can't stand to have
- ___ cat
- Standing loss
- Fold (over)
- Lick up
- Place for a small pet
- Tablet holder
- Cozy place to sit
- Pool user's unit
- One mile, at Churchill Downs
- Roller-derby unit
- Baby seat
- One in a swimmer's count
- What nobody can stand to make?
- Cat's seat, maybe
- Santa visitor's seat
- ___ dance
- Runner's distance
- Computer rest, nowadays
- Total revolution
- Once around an oval
- Type of dog
- Pet perch, perhaps
- Seat for a mall Santa's visitor
- Spot for a cat
- Luxury has one
- ___- computer
- What no one can stand to have
- Thing created when sitting
- Swimming pool rep
- Perch for a visitor to a store Santa
- Seat for a toddler
- Racetrack unit
- ___ of the Gods
- Place for a grandchild, maybe
- Cozy cat seat
- Common seat for toddlers
- It disappears after rising
- Once around, in a race
- 400-meter path, perhaps
- 400-meter loop, perhaps
- What you lose by taking a stand
- Child's seat, maybe
- Pass on a track
- Something you have in a chair
- 400 meters, to some runners
- Pass at indy
- Drink like a kitten
- Standee's lack
- Overtake in a race, in a way
- Spot for Spot
- Portable seating?
- Child's seat
- Fold
- Wind around
- Run a ___ (circle the track)
- Where a baby may sit
- Circle the track: run a ___
- Once around a running track
- Dirty dancing locale?
- Victory run, maybe
- To the end of the pool and back
- Word before robe or dance
- It folds in a chair
- Act like a thirsty kitten
- Devour milk like a cat
- Surface of the thighs when sitting
- Single circuit
- Racetrack circuit
- Kind of harp
- Type of harp
- Baby music composer Raimond ___
- Where Kate Bush "Sat"
- N.E.R.D. "___dance"
- Queen "In the ___ of the Gods ... Revisited"
- Kate Bush "Sat in Your ___"
- Slide guitar might sit on one
- Outkast "She Lives in My ___"
- Type of "dance" for N.E.R.D.?
- N.E.R.D. hit "___dance"
- Comfortable place to sit and drink
- It gets a racing driver nowhere!
- Luxurious place to live a dog's life?
- All round, it can be of honour
- Place for a cat
- Race car unit
- Spot for a tot visiting Santa
- It disappears when you stand
- MacBook spot, at times
- Dog's napping spot, perhaps
- Something you can stand to lose
- Place to keep a zither
- Speedway circuit
- Drink with tongue
- Overtake (straggler) in race
- Drink like kitten or race circuit
- Drink like kitten
- Circuit of racetrack
- Circuit friend recalled
- Toy dog's perch
- What you stand to lose?
- Wash against
- Living in the ___ of luxury
- Race section
- Such a dog will evidently take a drink!
- Cat's nap spot, at times
- Where a baby can sit
- Place to hold a toddler
- Baby's seat, sometimes
- It gets an athlete nowhere
- Sitting spot on Santa
- Swim competition unit
- Once around, in a way
- Splash gently, as waves
- Place for a small computer
- Track meet segment
- Distance runner's unit
- Place for a dinner napkin
- Wash up for a pal
- Baby's place
- In a race, can it get you nowhere?
- One of the Indy 500's 200
- Length of a pool and back
- Place for a baby
- Small dog's perch
- Individual's segment of a 4 x 400 relay
- It forms when you sit
- Lick at
- Gain a full circuit on
- Drink, as water from a dish
- Wash around circuitously?
- Overtake to become a circuit ahead
- Runner's rep
- Circuitous letter from the Lost Angeles police
- Place for some computers
- Metaphor for luxury
- ___ desk
- Leave in the dust by overtaking?
- 400-meter circuit
- Indy 500 segment
- To wash may be a matter of honour
- Seat for a peke
- Racing distance, often
- You need to sit down for this
- Pool workout unit
- One of 12 on a sitting jury?
- Daytona 500 circuit
- Place to set a baby or a napkin
- Part of a track record?
- Spot for a mall Santa's visitor
- Tot’s seat, maybe
- It gets a track athlete nowhere
- It disappears on rising
- ___ dog
- Post-win ritual
- Single trip across a pool
- Cat's perch, maybe
- Infant's seat
- Bit of a race, but it gets you nowhere!
- Metaphorical area of responsibility
- Place for a portable computer
- Length of a 400-meter run
- Overtake
- Something you can't have while standing up
- Where crumbs might accumulate during a meal
- Get way ahead of on a track
- Catcher behind the plate?
- One often chosen for lightness
- Place for a calm kitty
- Daytona 500 unit
- Relay portion
- Unit in many Olympic events
- 57-Across visitor's seat
- Race division
- Place for a baby or portable PC
- Seriously outrun on the track
- 1/4 mile of a high school track
- Place for a cat, or drink like a cat
- Place for a cuddly kitty
- Trip across a pool
- Track practice unit
- Place for a 15 inch computer
- Trip around a racetrack
- Cuddly cat's seat
- Swim lesson distance
- Napkin's perch
- Place for a cuddly cat
- Unit in Mario Kart games
- Luxurious place to live a dog's life?
- Equivalent of 400 meters, often
- Single trip around a racetrack
- Place for a cuddly kitten
- Fitness revolution?
- Spot for a sitting kitten
- Re-pass in a race
- Overtake and then some, on a track
- It's 328 feet in an Olympic-size pool
- Unsafe car seat?
- Place to lay a napkin
- 400 meters, on a standard track
- One trip around a track
- Drink like a cat ... or a place for a cat
- Pool or race unit
- Setting down forms it
- Spot for a clingy pet
- Prime seating for a snuggly cat
- Part of a race
- Place for a snuggly pet
- Once around the rink
- Kid's seat on Santa
- You can't stand having it ever
- Spot for a needy pet
- Place for a napkin or a cat
- Friendly cat's spot
- Where a spill might end up
- One time around a track
- Circuit used in electrical appliances
- There and back, perhaps
- Place for a cuddly pup
- Place for a snuggly kitty
- One of the Monaco Grand Prix's 78
- Place for a kitty who's "helping" with crossword construction
- Place for a snoozing kitty
- One length of a pool
- Something formed when sitting
- Get way ahead of, in a way
- Place for a snuggly cat
- Swim meet unit
- Seatbelt spot
- Mario Kart circuit
- Steeplechase unit
- Cozy spot for a cat
- Napkin's spot
- Spot for a toy
- Once around a skating rink, e.g.
- F1 unit
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 27, 2025
- LA Times - December 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 23, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 17, 2025
- LA Times - December 15, 2025
- LA Times - December 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - December 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 09, 2025
- LA Times - December 01, 2025
- New York Times - December 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - November 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 23, 2025
- LA Times - November 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 06, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 03, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 02, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 28, 2025
- New York Times - October 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 09, 2025
- New York Times - September 18, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 03, 2025
- LA Times - September 02, 2025
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